Mahdev Mohan teaches Public International Law at the Singapore Management University’s School of Law. A former Fulbright scholar, Mahdev’s research in the fields of international law, genocide studies and conflict resolution has been awarded Stanford University’s Carl Mason Franklin Jr. Prize for International Law and the Richard S. Goldsmith Research Grant for International Conflict and Negotiation. Mahdev’s international human rights litigation and civil society initiatives have earned him Singapore’s Outstanding Young Person Award for Contributions to Peace & Human Rights.
Vinita Ramani Mohan is an editor and writer. She was the Asian Scholarship Foundation’s 2007 ASIA Fellow and has spent the past three years researching and writing on memory and identity. She received a full scholarship from the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce to pursue a BA (Hons) degree in interdisciplinary studies focusing on identity and difference from Trent University (Canada). Vinita has a M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK) in South Asian Studies, focusing on ethnic minorities and the law. She formerly worked as a journalist and researcher on music, cinema and history with various institutions across North America and Asia.
Delphia is AJA’s pro bono Legal Associate and an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and is a litigation associate at Drew & Napier LLC. She was also a trial monitor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) with the Asian International Justice Initiative from June to September 2009. She is a graduate of the National University of Singapore’s law school.
Megan is currently serving as a legal fellow and lecturer at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, as well as being a pro bono AJA Legal Associate. A licensed attorney in the United States, Ms. Karsh has experience working with impact litigation and restorative justice initiatives in Namibia, the United States and Uganda. She earned her J.D. at Stanford Law School, where she was a Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict Negotiation.
Vani Sathisan is a final year J.D. law student at the National University of Singapore. She has a degree in Political Science and Spanish from Middlebury College (US), and was a United World College Scholar at the Adriatic College in Italy. Vani won the coveted Watson Fellowship in 2007 and independently explored the intersection of Politics and Theatre for a year in Australia, India, Malaysia, South Africa, Argentina, Chile and Canada.
The following persons are advisors to our Asian Peace-building & Human Rights Programme.
Ancker Distinguished Professor for the Humanities, and Director, Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley
Clinical Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Co-Director, Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School and Senior Advisor for Governance and Law, The Asia Foundation
Litigation Director, Open Society Initiative
Director, Program on Human Rights, Center for Democracy, Development & Rule of Law, Stanford University
Co-Director, Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law; Co-Director, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation
Founder-Director, Child Rights Law International and Co-Founder Sarvodaya Legal Services Movement (SLSM)